Quote by Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. -

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. – Anatole France

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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. – Anatole France

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Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. – Gwyn Thomas

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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. – Henry Rollins

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No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. – Thomas Szasz

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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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